Aesthetic foundations
Skill caoxg/claude-skill-aesthetic-foundations/skills/aesthetic-foundations
Inject aesthetic principles from painting, photography, graphic design, and Eastern visual tradition into any visual/design decision. Use when reviewing UI/UX, making typography/color/layout/spacing choices, evaluating a screenshot, or when user asks "does this look good" / "how to improve this design" / "审美". Loads composition theory (rule of thirds, visual weight, leading lines), color theory (Munsell, Albers, Itten 7 contrasts), grid systems (Müller-Brockmann, 8pt), Gestalt hierarchy, ma/negative-space, and references masters (Vermeer, Mondrian, Rothko, Hopper, Sargent, Bresson, Avedon, Saul Leiter, 杉本博司, Rams, Vignelli, Tschichold, Saul Bass, 原研哉, 八大山人, 倪瓒). Not a web/CSS framework checklist — complements rather than replaces frontend-design.From its SKILL.md
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Aesthetic Foundations
这个 skill 在你接到视觉判断任务时, 先把审美词汇激活, 然后再开始评审或建议. 没有它的话默认会滑回"通用 web 风格": 圆角、Material 阴影、彩虹色 badge — 那不是审美, 那是肌肉记忆.
触发后第一件事
别立刻给答案. 先做一次 critique-protocol 7 步走:
- 三秒第一印象 — 眼睛先落在哪?
- 眯眼测试 — 层次还在吗?
- 灰度测试 — 转黑白还能不能用?
- 留白测试 — 空白是"意味" 还是"没填满"?
- 裁剪测试 — 能砍掉什么?
- 大师参照 — 哪条原则被违反 / 被尊重?
- 改动清单 — 3-5 个具体动作, 不要"再干净一点"
加载哪些 reference (按主题)
| 任务 | 必看 |
|---|---|
| 布局 / 构图 | references/composition.md + references/grid-and-rhythm.md |
| 色彩 | references/color.md |
| 字体 / 排印 | references/typography.md |
| 信息层级 | references/visual-hierarchy.md |
| 空 / 留白 | references/ma-and-negative-space.md |
加载哪些 master (按情境)
| 情境 | 看谁 |
|---|---|
| 光与窗 / 单光源场景 | Vermeer (painters.md) |
| 平衡 + 非对称 | Mondrian, Bada Shanren (painters.md / 中式审美.md) |
| 用色块情绪 | Rothko (painters.md) |
| 决定性瞬间 / 几何瞬间 | 布列松 (photographers.md) |
| 隔离主体 / 极简肖像 | Avedon (photographers.md) |
| 工业克制 / 功能美 | Dieter Rams (designers.md) |
| 网格 + 极少字体 | Vignelli (designers.md) |
| 留白 / 东方极简 | 原研哉 + 中式审美.md |
| 中式语境 / 项目用中文 | masters/中式审美.md 优先于 Bauhaus |
不变量 (别忘了)
- 审美不是规则集 — 是张力. 三分法 vs 居中, 网格 vs 破格, 都对, 看情境.
- 先看后说 — 任何"建议"前必须先描述眼睛实际看到的 (眼动 / 焦点 / 层次), 不要直接跳到 "建议把 padding 加到 16px".
- 不要逃进 hex — "把 ink3 改成 ink2" 是 token 操作, 不是设计判断. 判断是: "这里需要更弱的灰让标题更突出".
- 数量级而非数值 — "留白翻倍" 比 "padding 24→48" 更靠近设计语言. 像素是结果, 不是输入.
- 不与 frontend-design 抢活 — 那个 skill 管"web UI 是否符合工程规范". 这个 skill 管"为什么这样组合好看".
What ships with it: 11 files
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masters/
- designers.md7.6 KB
- painters.md7.2 KB
- photographers.md6.3 KB
- 中式审美.md8.5 KB
references/
- color.md6.7 KB
- composition.md5.8 KB
- grid-and-rhythm.md5.5 KB
- ma-and-negative-space.md6.0 KB
- typography.md6.9 KB
- visual-hierarchy.md6.1 KB
- critique-protocol.md5.2 KB
Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most design frontend skills give in ~1.0k tokens
Counted across 1,179 of the 2,086 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-09-06
- Commit to a bold aesthetic directionin 31 of 1179, across 24 files
- Prefer component composition over inheritancein 28 of 1179, across 14 files
- Animate only transform and opacity propertiesin 27 of 1179, across 22 files
- Memoize expensive computations with useMemoin 26 of 1179, across 13 files
- Use semantic HTML elementsin 24 of 1179, across 23 files
- Virtualize long lists for performancein 21 of 1179, across 10 files
- Use CSS variables for design tokensin 20 of 1179, across 14 files
- Implement loading, empty, and error statesin 20 of 1179
- Lazy load heavy components with Suspensein 19 of 1179, across 8 files
- Respect prefers-reduced-motion media queriesin 18 of 1179, across 10 files
- Prioritize CSS-only animations for HTMLin 18 of 1179, across 16 files
- Use compound components for related UI elementsin 18 of 1179, across 7 files
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- Activate aesthetic vocabulary before reviewing designs
- Perform the seven step critique protocol first
- Describe visual focus and hierarchy before suggesting changes
- Use magnitude instead of specific numerical values
- Reference composition and color theory masters
- Prioritize Chinese aesthetics for Chinese language projects
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